From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-h K and C-h F in the Help menu Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 21:46:34 +0300 Message-ID: References: <446F87C6.4090109@student.lu.se> <44701909.2050601@student.lu.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148237233 5662 80.91.229.2 (21 May 2006 18:47:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 18:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 21 20:47:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fhsx4-0003pj-AL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 20:46:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fhsx3-0002DN-Gb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:46:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fhswr-0002BN-8l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:46:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fhswo-0002Ap-Oe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:46:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fhswo-0002Am-FK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:46:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fht0d-0000WR-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 May 2006 14:50:35 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-141-146.inter.net.il [84.228.141.146]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id EFZ05007 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 21 May 2006 21:46:34 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-reply-to: <44701909.2050601@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Sun, 21 May 2006 09:38:49 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:54963 > Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 09:38:49 +0200 > From: Lennart Borgman > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > At first sight one might think that the time to find something in a menu > is proportional to the length of the menu. I think however that the time > required rises much faster, but I have not read any research about this. That might be so, but several popular GUI programs I checked have menus whose length is comparable or even larger than our 17 items. So I should we shouldn't bother to change that. > Submenus will reduce the number of items And increase the time required to figure out in which submenu I find what I'm looking for.